A Russian serial killer who was pardoned in exchange for serving on the front lines has reportedly been killed in action in Ukraine.
Denis Zubov, 41, was killed on April 20, 2023, according to the date on his grave marker – but his death was only discovered by a group tracking Russian soldiers killed in the Ukraine war, Mediazone said.
Based on the date on his grave, Zubov may have been killed near Bakhmut, the outlet added.
Zubov’s sister, Tatyana, confirmed that Zubov was pardoned for serving in the conflict in Ukraine and was later killed.
“They told me that he left [prison] own We don’t know the situation at all. As the military curator told me, he signed the contract himself. They were visited in these cells, as they are called,” he told the outlet.
Zubov, from Volgograd, was sentenced to 21 years in a maximum-security prison colony in 2017 for killing and maiming three people, the Moscow Times reported.
Zubov’s grave marker indicates he died in late April. Project Dozor
His killing allegedly began after a difficult break-up with a woman he had been dating, Mediazone said, citing local reports.
On September 1, 2013, she brutally murdered a man she believed to be her romantic enemy and cut off his genitals.
Two days later, he beat an elderly woman to death with a wrench and cut off her breast, the report continued.
The war in Ukraine has been raging for almost two years. Reuters
Zubov stole 1,800 rubles and a watch from the victim’s house before setting the house on fire and fleeing the scene.
A few months later, Zubov met his ex-girlfriend again.
After the relationship fell apart again, in the summer of 2014, he lured the woman into the woods and strangled her to death before burying her body nearby.
Russia has recruited prisoners to serve in the Ukrainian war. Reuters
Zubov eluded arrest for nearly two years before he was finally arrested in 2016 and confessed to all three murders, Mediazone explained.
He was later linked to the crime through DNA evidence, the outlet added.
News of Zubov’s death comes about two months after a former Moscow police officer convicted of killing a high-profile journalist was pardoned for his own service in Ukraine.
Sergei Khadzhikurbanov was pardoned after serving one contract on the front line, and also signed a second contract, his lawyer announced in November.
He was previously sentenced to two decades in prison for the 2006 shooting death of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
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